Nestled in the heart of Geneva’s Old Town, the Museum of Art and History ranks among Switzerland’s largest museums. Boasting a collection of around 650,000 objects spanning applied arts, fine arts, and archaeology across five floors, the museum embraces a dynamic and innovative approach to showcase its treasures through unexpected exhibitions. Annually, it hosts approximately ten temporary exhibitions, frequently inviting contemporary artists to contribute. The museum organizes a variety of surprising events, including yoga classes in the galleries and after-work parties.
Genevan artists Serval (graffiti) and Kalonji (illustrator) present collaborative live interventions that foreground process and exchange. Through spray-painted gestures, drawn studies and on-the-spot compositions, their practice brings graffiti’s urban energy into dialogue with illustration’s line and narrative.
The encounters generate ephemeral murals, sketches and hybrid works that respond to surrounding artworks and invite reflection on authorship, community and the visible traces of making. The project emphasizes immediacy, improvisation and the porous boundary between public and intimate mark-making.
In French.
Explores representations of the human form from the goddess Aphrodite to the hero Achilles and a fearsome cyclops, through a selection of sculptural and figurative works from across the collection. The visit examines how bodily ideals, mythic narratives and corporeal vulnerability are rendered in stone, relief and painted surfaces, and how form conveys power, desire and otherness. Led by an art historian with interpretation in French Sign Language, it foregrounds perception and embodied reception.
In French.
Dance through a colorful gallery exploring bouquets of flowers, bright electric neon, paintings and playful installations. Move, listen and mime as the artworks invite tiny steps and big gestures. A cultural mediator and the dancer Lucy Nightingale lead simple games, rhythms and short choreographies for families. Children can experiment with sound, color and movement while discovering the artist’s creative world in a warm, shared adventure.
In French.
Kids ages 4–5 at 10:00
Kids ages 6 and up at 11:00
Quatuor Terpsycordes offers an intimate reading of Haydn’s String Quartet No. 22, blending classical clarity with expressive warmth. The four instruments engage in crisp, conversational interplay, where nimble phrasing and sculpted dynamics reveal wit and tenderness. The programme emphasizes formal balance and close listening, drawing out subtle rhythmic sparks and lyrical lines. The performance invites concentrated attention, unfolding moments of airy humour, poised restraint and lingering melodic grace.
Serval, a Geneva graffiti artist, and Kalonji, an illustrator, facilitate conversational studio sessions that highlight contemporary visual practices and peer exchange.
Participants converse with artworks, experiment with mark-making and illustration techniques, and co-create responses informed by observation and critique. The session examines creative process, material strategies, and the relationship between urban and illustrative vocabularies to stimulate close looking and practice-based reflection.
In French.
This solo performance by Juan Pablo Cámara traces the contours of attention and encounter. Combining subtle gestures, spoken fragments and calibrated pauses, the piece unfolds as a durational portrait that navigates memory, presence and the politics of looking. The artist’s restrained physicality and keen listening create a charged atmosphere where small actions accumulate into emotional clarity. Presented within the ‘First impressions’ residency curated by Jade Meili Barget.
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